This transcription was done in November of 1987 by my late Uncle Eugene Mezick. He said at that time that these were the graves he could see "through the briars and two feet of ivy". Since that time, the conditions have declined even further, to the point that an attempt to access the graves to do a complete transcription of the stones was impossible to accomplish in August, 1997. The list has been supplemented by Hobart Hughes, who supplied a more complete listing in April, 1995, and again by the CemTrek98 attendees in August of 1998. At this point, we're pretty confident that we have listed all the marked graves. This little cemetery lies back some distance from the south side of Capitola Road, 0.8 miles west of Whitehaven Road, on what is known as "the old Hughes farm".

"God keep his soul! his bones were long since laid
Among the sunken gravestones in the shade
Of those dark-lichened rocks, that wall around
The family burying-ground with cedars crowned:
Where bristling teasel and the brier combine
With clambering wood-rose and the wildgrape-vine
To hide the stone whereon his name and dates
Neglect, with mossy hand, obliterates."from "The Old Water Mill" by Madison Cawein

Francis Mezick 1805 - 1863 (Francis was the son of Elihu Jr. and Leah [Dougherty] Mezick.)

Sarah Mezick 1836 - 1905 (my Uncle Gene wrote this as "Sarah Mezick + old maid". Does this mean that her headstone identified her as an old maid? She was daughter of Francis and Sarah Anne [Denson] Mezick.)

Ruby Mezick 1881 - 1883

Ira B. Mezick, b. May 10, 1879, d. Jan. 2, 1954 (Ira Mezick was a nationally-known antiques expert who lived next door to the farm upon which this graveyard is located. He was the son of John C. D. and Esther L. [Davis] Mezick.)

The only children of Francis and Sarah Anne (Denson) Mezick who are not buried here are:

Isaac Francis Mezick, 1839 - 1923, who married Elizabeth Jane White and is buried at St. Johns Methodist Church in Fruitland
Martha A. Mezick, b. 1834, d. ??. I've never come across information on who she married, when she died, or where she is buried.

This Cemetery Project is associated with Handley's Eastern Shore Genealogy Project, and with the Wicomico County, Maryland USGenWeb Project site.